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Tony Serra
American lawyer (born 1934)
Joseph Tony Serra (born December 30, 1934) is an American criminal defense and civil rightsattorney, political activist and tax resister from San Francisco.
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Early life and education
A San Francisco native, Serra was raised in the Outer Sunset district. His father, Anthony Serra, was a Spanish immigrant from Mallorca who worked in a jelly bean factory, and his mother, Gladys (Fineberg) Serra was a Russian Jewish immigrant from Odessa; she died by suicide in 1977.[1][2]
Serra earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley.
While in law school, Serra was a contributor to the California Law Review.
Career
In 1970, Serra successfully defended Black Panther leader Huey Newton in a murder trial.
In 1983, Serra won an acquittal for Chol Soo Lee, a Korean American immigrant in San Francisco who had been co